Quotes About Judgment

taught that people are not to 'be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me." "Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.

it is impossible to come to a sensible conclusion about anything when one is very tired

You yourself, I seem to remember, have a way of soaking up scandal broth even as you seem to have a mind for higher and nobler things. Stir yourself.

I'd like to get rid of all of them. Filthy hovels, filthy people. I would tear down the houses and let sheep roam among the rocks.

Certainty about one's moral stance might be soothing, but it tends to blinker us to damage we are about to cause.

doubt if there was anything to choose in the fanatical temper of their minds between Savonarola and Torquemada.

He definitely wasn't my type. I liked the roughneck Jodeci look, and Michael was so clean-cut, he looked more like the fifth member of Boys II Men.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

For if God sent his Son, and poured out his wrath upon his Son for the sins of the world, then God has taken responsibility for his sovereignty. No one, who will recognize and believe what God has done, needs to suffer eternal judgment. Everyone has a way to escape. In a sense, as Sartre suggests, the doors of hell are locked from the inside; the horror of a soul hating the loving salvation of God deserves exactly what he gets—eternal punishment.

tells us that not many of us should become teachers (James 3:1), because the teachers are to be judged more strictly. For this reason, Christians should strive mightily in prayer for their teachers, that those teachers should teach the unadulterated word of God. Those teachers are in a most awful position—God will judge them on the basis of how well they taught his message. It is our prayers, yours and mine, that will help to keep them on the right path.

the law is a blind woman and the judge usually an unloved old man.

Ella glanced at him reproachfully, and explained herself. 'Talking to those Prostitutes,' said Ella. . . . Her violent stress upon the first syllable of this word implied a differentiation between a large class of almost venial Titutes, and another branch of the same class, designated as Pros, and beyond the pale.

If he was in the mood to admire someone, why had he not gone to someone genuinely pretty and attractive? She knew she was plain all right: she knew it with such depth and frankness that she could positively find it in her heart to despise his taste! And if she despised his taste, she must despise the whole situation of which she formed a part. He had set in motion a degrading event.

The commitment to enlarged thought is morally and politically significant in that it fosters the 'ability to think without rules', to cultivate judgement and conscience capable of thinking through the purposes and consequences of our actions from different perspectives, without proceeding in automatic fashion through obedience to pre-existing social conventions.

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

He felt that what he had done could never be forgiven and he was destined to go to hell, so it didn't matter if he killed more people.

Once that positive or negative impression is set into place, every one of your actions is viewed through it.

Si no eres consciente de cómo puedes proyectar tus propias necesidades, miedos, suposiciones y prejuicios en los demás, tus observaciones y conclusiones sobre los demás no serán gran cosa. De hecho, es posible que simplemente hayas descubierto una forma indirecta de aprender sobre ti mismo y el equipaje cognitivo y emocional que tú dejas ver.

It's your right to not justify your behavior with excuses. You don't have to give reasons or agree to things you don't want to do because you're worried that your reason doesn't seem good enough. If you don't want to attend an event because you want to spend quality time with your dog, that's valid and no one can judge. You don't owe someone something just because your justification doesn't align with their values.

If you only rely on random chance and luck to make a great first impression, you will be waiting for a long time.